An engine can be powerful. I am not sure it is the right adjective for "beech tress".
You can rev up a powerful engine in your Range Rover and hit a beech tree. Guess which one will look potent thereafter.
You would look more potent in your Range Rover if you did not hit the tree. Or "beech tress" as they were spelt.
If it's bathroom carpet that makes you squirm, take a look at photo 34 of this beauty. Oh and have a look at the velour overload in the bedrooms too. It's like the house that time forgot, with a few updates of gilt mirrors and lighting.
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/bungalow-pembroke-dublin-road-drogheda-co-meath/5973913
bit of a time capsule that one, some of the living areas are interesting, bedrooms are nightmare stuff
I had no idea I've driven past that hundreds of times 😮 While it's not my cup of tea, I have to give a tip of the hat to them. It's certainly interesting and must have been considered a bit posh back in the day.
The beds with the pink duvets look so comfy! Like something your Granny would have for when you come to stay!
Oh my goodness, that's outstandingly fantastic!
The clash of styles/patterns in a lot of the rooms…. there are a couple of rugs there that I'd pay them a lot of money for, they're absolutely beautiful! I think the gold headboard and pelmet above the bed in the master bedroom wins for me.
Plus a garden big enough to have hay bales in, PLUS the gazebo from the Sound of Music!!
I don't think they're hay bales. Random hedges in the middle of the lawn they look like to me.
Good lord.
But I'll say one thing for it. Everything looks like it has been kept clean. Some rooms don't have skirting boards, which I find odd.
An absolutely brilliant find for the thread. I am going to go back through all the photos later to enjoy the mad colours and furnishings. I sometimes give up if there's loads of photos but I love that - not as a house I would want, but very enjoyable to look through. 😁
Oh I would say definitely, very posh altogether, back in the day.
The bedrooms haven't been updated since Elvis was living in Graceland.
The kitchen and bathroom are wonderfully quirky. Take the carpet out of the en suite bathroom and it's fabulous!
I love the garden gazebo too.
The house next door sold a few years back, the new owners bulldozed the bungalow and built a massive 2 story house in it's place. Thankfully they put up a big fence and gates and it can't be seen from the road because it's a very boring sterile looking monstrosity.
At first I thought they were garden furniture with their covers on in the winter.
Now I have no idea what they are, it's a random pattern for hedges!
It looks like the radiators were retrofitted and skirts taken out in places and they didn't bother putting them back. You can see pipework running behind the bed in the master bedroom.
I love the saloon doors between the kitchen and utility room.
I'd love to have no skirting, I don't see the point of it.
I love the green tiles in the bathroom, fab 😍
I'm with you there, I love that bathroom. Apart from carpet!
Instantly thought of my mother. She’d love it. Her own house was a slightly scaled down version of this. And she loved carpet in the bathroom! Why would anyone want cold slippery tiles underfoot, especially in the middle of the night?!
The logic is right. Carpet underfoot is far better than cold tiles.
But it really depends on the boys and men in your house and how good their aim is.
I just noticed the portrait in the mustard velour master bedroom😮
How could you sleep with that looking at you from over the wardrobe?
BER F. Next level is a derelict tin roofed shed. There is not a single thing I like about that house, and as soon as you start moving things there will be work to do.
I think it's a dump too and shocked so many here like it. It is completely dated and the state of the kitchen as well. Very expensive too and all the flack great houses on here get and this dump everyone seems to like.
As usual I can not see further than the BER and that house is fridge-id
While personal taste is yours calling the place a dump because of your taste is pretty unfair. It is very obvious that this was all very expensive work at the time and has been well maintained. The kitchen look like it is is in perfect condition and given the age that is impressive. It is probably made of better materials than a modern kitchen.
Real wool carpets as opposed to modern synthetics. The furniture is certainly quality antiques. Given this looks like it was don in the early 70s and has held up so well speaks to the quality. I doubt anything you would want to replace it with would last anywhere near as long.
There is a difference between quality and fashion/taste which most people here probably appreciate.
That's why you wear slippers 🤣
Plus wee is the lesser evil of all the things that can end up hidden by a bathroom carpet!
Tiles and a bucket and mop cannot be beaten!
i had to lift lino that had been laid in the bathroom, in the first house i bought. the window was locked shut so i couldn't open it for ventilation. that was… unpleasant.
Lovely breeding ground for silverfish.
no, that's not what i had to deal with. think of probably a couple of decades of badly aimed male urine seeping underneath it.
It's funny the different priorities we all have, I wouldn't even look at the BER cert!
I would not be fussy to a couple of points on the BER scale, as some of the stuff is a bit ridiculous - you can get serious BER points for having eco light bulbs, which is fair enough from an environmental point of view, but is not going to keep the house warm. But when you see an otherwise apparently sound house with an F rating you know there is going to be a lot of work to get it to anything reasonable.
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